At the height of the bullying scandal that rocked the U.S. in 2008, a 15-year-old boy named Larry King asked another boy to be his Valentine in a suburban schoolyard in California. The next day Larry was dead, shot in cold blood by his 14-year-old crush Brandon McInerney. Valentine Road bores deeply into homophobia, sexism, racism, and class-struggle that inform our everyday lives and reveal a truly broken justice system.